11151951

Electro-Phoretic Display and Driving Method Thereof

PublishedOctober 19, 2021
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1. An electro-phoretic display, comprising: a display panel, having a plurality of first electro-phoretic particles, a plurality of second electro-phoretic particles and a plurality of third electro-phoretic particles, and the display panel configured to display an image frame; and a driving circuit, coupled to the display panel, configured to drive the display panel to display the image frame according to a driving signal, wherein the driving signal comprises a first pulse and a second pulse, and a driving period of the driving signal comprises a first stage, a second stage and a driving stage in sequence, wherein the first stage comprises a balancing stage and a mixing stage in sequence, wherein the second stage is a resetting stage, and the resetting stage is between the mixing stage and the driving stage, wherein the balancing stage includes a positive first voltage, the resetting stage includes a positive second voltage, the first pulse includes a negative first voltage, and the second pulse includes the positive second voltage, wherein the first pulse is located before the driving stage, the second pulse is located in the second stage, and a pulse width of the first pulse is larger than a pulse width of the second pulse, wherein the driving signal further includes a plurality of positive pulse signals and a plurality of negative pulse signals arranged alternately in the first stage, wherein the driving circuit balances electrical charges of the plurality of second electro-phoretic particles through the first pulse in the balancing stage, and the driving circuit uses the plurality of positive pulse signals and the plurality of negative pulse signals in the mixing stage to uniformly disperse the plurality of first electro-phoretic particles, the plurality of second electro-phoretic particles and the plurality of third electro-phoretic particles.

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2. The electro-phoretic display according to claim 1 , wherein the first pulse is located in the balancing stage.

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3. The electro-phoretic display according to claim 1 , wherein the pulse width of the first pulse is equal to ten times the pulse width of the second pulse.

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4. The electro-phoretic display according to claim 2 , wherein the pulse width of the first pulse is 200 milliseconds.

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5. A driving method of an electro-phoretic display, configured to drive a display panel of the electro-phoretic display, wherein the display panel has a plurality of first electro-phoretic particles, a plurality of second electro-phoretic particles and a plurality of third electro-phoretic particles, wherein the plurality of second electro-phoretic particles are a plurality of black electro-phoretic particles, the driving method comprising: driving the display panel with a first pulse in a driving period, wherein the driving period comprises a first stage, a resetting stage and a driving stage in sequence, and the first pulse is located before the driving stage, wherein the first stage comprises a balancing stage and a mixing stage in sequence; and driving the display panel with a second pulse in the resetting stage, and a pulse width of the first pulse is larger than a pulse width of the second pulse, wherein in the first stage, the display panel is driven with a plurality of positive pulse signals and a plurality of negative pulse signals arranged alternately, in the balancing stage, electrical charges of the plurality of second electro-phoretic particles are balanced with the first pulse, and in the mixing stage, the plurality of first electro-phoretic particles, the plurality of second electro-phoretic particles and the plurality of third electro-phoretic particles are uniformly dispersed by the plurality of positive pulse signals and the plurality of negative pulse signals, in the resetting stage, the plurality of black electro-phoretic particles are reset with the second pulse.

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6. The driving method of the electro-phoretic display according to claim 5 , wherein the first pulse is located in the balancing stage.

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October 19, 2021

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Feng-Shou Lin
Chen-Kai Chiu
Chih-Yu Cheng

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